Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-02-19

Mr.. Aikens, the the elocution teacher,
read a piece, and all the boarlerS came
in
JOHN smiled. cycling the little maiden
pityingly as she stitched away. She
looked up suddenly and caught his eye.
1--WE did not always keep boarderS, v
she said, proudly. reading something
there she did not like. when l was
at school we were well off and had a
nice house; but mamma is a widow
with eight children, You know, and |
have to help her about the work"
Il know" said John, kindly, looking
at little Clarice with 50 much sympa-
thy that she quite warmed toward him,
and continued contidentially;
"Once | had a beautiful time-that
was a good while ago-a gil knew at
school hunted me up, wrote to me and
invited me to see her. 1t wasin Phila-
dclphia."
And did You go?"
"Ah, yes, and it was 4 beautiful
time Then. her face falling, ''hut l
had to come home. II was all over in
three months"
,,Ah, that was hard" >ympathctic-
ally.
Yes, it was, Mr.. Rogers taking
M another Jacket and beginning on a
new hole. For they were rich. vou
know, and it was quite like old times
their nice house and al-and then to
come back hcre-the noise and the
! children. and clearing up the rooms
it seemed worse after that. But per
haps | shouldn't have minded it if il
hadn't been tor-therr was something
worse than all that. continued Claricp,
working hard at the Jacket with crimson
checks.
"Will Won ten me about it?" asked
John Rogers. yerv kindly, his honest
GRAY eyes softening. ..Itdoe> one GOOD
sometimes To tell ones troubles. and |
am so much older than YOU"
Clarice looked M. quite gratiiied at
this unexpected sympathy.
al will Tell you. Mr.. Rogers. Il was
when | was in PHILADELPHIA that ! met
Harris-Harris Bcll-and ! wa,-so
different there. at the parties | went to
with Fannie, that he thought | was
pretty. and told me 50. and said that
-:
wife. had A pretty white dress. YOU
know" timidlv. and glancing blush
ingly down at her present faded calico,
land wore howers-aud-vou can
scarcely understand it,"
yes, | can understand it," said
John, noting the LIGHT in the brown
ewes and the newly acquired color.
TEL me the rest, Ciaricc."
'.And we were engaged-and / could
scarcely believe it-but | was very
happy. He was such a handsome gen
tleman too. and so aristocratic. and |
did not mind the boardcrs; or any
thing when | thought about Harris. So
at last he came here to see me; and he
saw mamma and the children, the
house and the boardcrs. and ! can't
tell Won how it was. but he was di. T.
emf. He didn't tell me he was changed.
but he was restless. and it worried him.
and | saw he cared. am proud. Mr.
Rogers. though we are poor now. and
broke it all up. 1t wasn't the love
had dreamed of. | had read a great
many novels, and | thought life was a
fairy tale. and love wa, beautiful. !
/, always used to think: When some ont
= comes to love me I'll never be- sad Oh
{ veNed any more; and Harris seemed
% to me to be all had wished for unit
saw the house and the boarders fretted
him, For had dreamed of a love that
5 would be ont Of the common, and that
/ when | went away with my lover
T. thought |, too, would be- better, Just
rs he wished me to be. So | told him,
9 Mr.. ROGERS. if was all over and he
, said pcrhops we were NOT fitted ,o max,
: each other happy. And then he went
, away, and tbe work and fbc noise an,
/ and the hoarders frettad mo %. tbo,
/ had povor dane beforo For .on,obou.
3 ,Itborrb ,ouId mat loro Kin, ~. m,al
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